From: andrew zerger <rhoyerboat@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Heresy alert
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 15:14:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEDadrwKyJ=Ey9mG2RTA4BcLTH-J85BoNY08ts0XuU7m=g5P7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFiGbxhrdiyG9+oqN2ucncqoK0MvAVLOajWfW3_Tc60DOuKy5g@mail.gmail.com>
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In honor of plan9s utf imperitive, and after a little g-translate I think
your Chinese colleague might prefer 复本 (fu`ben^) .. which .. takes up less
screen space and to most new users would be about as eas to integrate
mentally ;)
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Winston Kodogo <kodogo@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd vote for spelling it Xerox, on the possibly spurious grounds that
> a Chinese colleague of mine pronounced it "ex-rocks" for some time. I
> still prefer his pronunciation, and have adopted it myself. The
> initial "Z" just doesn't work for me.
>
>
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⎼⎺⎺├@┼␊├├≤-␍⎼␊▒␍:/⎺└␊/⎼⎺#
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-30 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-30 21:05 Winston Kodogo
2012-05-30 21:14 ` andrew zerger [this message]
2012-05-30 21:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-05-31 14:39 ` David Leimbach
2012-05-31 14:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2012-05-31 14:59 ` David Leimbach
2012-05-31 15:01 ` Calvin Morrison
2012-05-31 16:00 ` Stephen Wiley
2012-05-31 17:03 ` Wes Kussmaul
2012-05-31 13:30 Jason Catena
2012-05-31 13:35 ` dexen deVries
2012-06-03 1:18 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
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